Otunnu vs. State House on Northern Uganda; Otunnu Leaves Country
Olara Otunnu accused President Museveni of supporting the war in northern Uganda.
State House is urging all radio stations in northern Uganda to apologize for hosting the UPC president Olara Otunnu, who linked President Museveni to the Lord’s Resistance Army last week.
“The person who wished to see the war continue was Museveni and the NRM government,” Otunnu told the press last week, according to reporting by the Independent. ”The war became a huge source of corruption which had a big issue with regard to ghost soldiers. Those soldiers were phenomenally developed particularly in the Northern war, because there were government ministers and army commanders who began make lucrative money out of the continuation of the LRA war.”
At the Uganda Media Centre, the president’s press secretary Tamale Mirundi said that radio stations which don’t apologize could face charges. He also asked Voice of Lango FM to apologize again, saying the apology on its airwaves was not convincing, according to reporting by the Daily Monitor.
Mirundi said that in the peak of the LRA war, Musevenvi was the only leader who spent months locating rebels that had infiltrated villages, and that the UPDF supplied medical and food supplies to the camps.
Otunnu has ignored police summons, and is attending meetings in South Africa, the U.S. and Europe. He has been asked to come to CID for interrogation on grounds of criminal defamation and sectarianism, according to reporting by New Vision. Otunnu said Constitutional Court should issue the summons.
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